Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shaven
IPA transcription: [ʃ'eɪvən]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: shaven, shaved
    Meaning: having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin
Usage examples
  • The shaven face of the priest is a further item to the same effect.
  • The Englishman was well dressed, and newly shaven, and wore a rosebud in his buttonhole.
  • As if my life were shaven And fitted to a frame, And could not breathe without a key; And 't was like midnight, some,
  • I walked about, looking into the faces that I met. That shaven peasant, branded on his face as a criminal, bawling his hoarse, drunken song, may be that very Marey; I cannot look into his heart.
  • In the consulting-room he was met by his assistant, Sergey Sergeyitch--a fat little man with a plump, well-washed shaven face, with soft, smooth manners, wearing a new loosely cut suit, and looking more like a senator than a medical assistant.